The Bible and the Ancient Near East: Collected EssaysPresented in this volume is a collection of the shorter writings of one of the more innovative scholars working on the relationship between the writings of the Hebrew Bible and its ancient Near East context. Topics include: ANE environment, literature of the ANE, myth versus history, Nebuchadnezzar I's Elamite crisis, Job and the Israelite religious tradition, motif of the weeping God in Jeremiah, lament tradition in ANE, the hand of Yahweh, and whether God lies. |
Contents
| 3 | |
Chapter 2 | 44 |
Chapter 3 | 59 |
Chapter 4 | 72 |
Chapter 5 | 83 |
Chapter 6 | 95 |
Chapter 7 | 102 |
Chapter 8 | 104 |
Chapter 16 | 262 |
Chapter 17 | 266 |
Chapter 18 | 274 |
Chapter 19 | 282 |
Chapter 20 | 292 |
Chapter 21 | 313 |
Chapter 22 | 331 |
Chapter 23 | 348 |
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Common terms and phrases
3Thus says 4your a-na Adad adoption Akkadian Alalakh Alten Amorite Ancient Near East ancient Near Eastern Assyrian Baal Babylon Babylonian be-lí be-lí-ya Bible biblical Canaanite canonical context covenant cult cultic Dagan David deity Deut divine Durand Ebla ecstatic Egyptian Elamites Elyon epic Essays expression Ezek Ezekiel follows God’s gods Hebrew Hittite human i-na Ibid imagery interpretation Isaiah Israel Israelite J. J. M. Roberts Jebusite Jeremiah Jerusalem Judean judgment ki-a-am king kingship lament language later literature lord Marduk Mari material meaning Mesopotamian monarchy Moreover motif myth mythological narrative Nebuchadnezzar Neukirchener Nuzi Old Testament oracle original pagan parallels passage period political Pontifical Biblical Institute prayers priest prophecy prophetic Psalm reading reference religious ritual royal Samuel scholars speak suggests Sumerian tablet temple texts theological throne tion translation ú-ul Ugaritic verb Verlag verse word Yahweh Zaphon Zimri-Lim Zimri-Lim reports Zion tradition
References to this book
Remembering Abraham: Culture, Memory, and History in the Hebrew Bible Ronald Hendel Limited preview - 2005 |